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BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH)
As the world’s third-largest manufacturer of household appliances, we have a special responsibility to help mitigate climate change by realizing potential energy savings. Because household appliances account for a large percentage of the power used in private homes, improved product design can make a key contribution to environmental and climate protection. In the poorer areas of São Paulo, for example, we’re cooperating with Brazilian utilities to improve the lives of local residents and protect the environment. By ensuring the ecofriendly disposal of old refrigerators – which contain CFCs and FCs and consume huge amounts of electricity – and replacing them with advanced, high-efficiency models, we’re reducing energy consumption in the city and combating climate change as well.
With 70 companies in more than 40 countries, we manufacture large and small household appliances at 43 factories worldwide. Bosch and Siemens are the best-selling appliance brands in Europe. Our comprehensive portfolio also includes six specialty brands (Gaggenau, Neff, Thermador, Constructa, Viva and Ufesa), which cater to specific customer needs, and six regional brands (Balay, Lynx, Pitsos, Profilo, Continental and Coldex) that enhance our market profile and occupy leading market positions in their home countries.
Innovation and quality are our key business drivers. In developing new products, we focus on improving performance, convenience and user-friendliness. But boosting competitiveness and increasing customer value are not our only priorities; our technologies are also designed to minimize environmental impact. Transferring know-how across our entire enterprise, we’re setting benchmarks worldwide – also in the area of environmental protection – while making a major commitment to sustainable development and the responsible use of natural resources.
Nokia Siemens Networks
By 2015, we expect five billion people to be connected via mobile, wireless broadband or fixed broadband, opening up unprecedented opportunities for communications service providers. Positioning our customers to realize this potential, we’re working with them to develop trailblazing technologies and business models that are spawning innovative solutions and strategies for success. We’re also helping customers streamline their business processes to achieve greater operational efficiency, higher margins and faster-than-market growth.
One of the many ways we’re connecting people is with Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection. This award-winning GSM- and IP-based network solution is designed specifically for rural village communities in emerging markets where the rollout and operation of a traditional GSM network would be too costly. As well as being highly cost-effective, Village Connection is easy to deploy and operate. What’s more, its novel franchise-based business model makes rural coverage a viable proposition for operators and village entrepreneurs – bringing the benefits of mobile voice and Internet connectivity to people living in remote villages.
Nokia Siemens Networks collaborates closely with both Siemens and Nokia to offer end-to-end solutions for communications service providers as well as public and corporate customers in various industries. Working together, we combine our reliable, secure communications products, technologies and services to create comprehensive solutions specifically tailored to our customers’ needs.
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